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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

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If the Guinness Book of World
Records had a category for the world’s most boring life, Millie Stephens knows
she would hold the record. After the plain, strait-laced personal assistant is
saved by a total stranger from becoming New York City’s latest traffic
fatality, she has a disheartening epiphany: her life’s highlight reel didn’t
exist. Determined to step out of the shadows and take a walk on the wild side,
she starts Millie-style – by making a list.

She sees a stereotypical
thug.

That total stranger, bad boy
Ian Brand, is more than the sum of his parts. Beneath that sexy, tattooed
exterior is a man with a painful past who’s desperate to both hide and overcome
his disability in the pursuit of his dreams. But his decision to bid on a large
construction project could both lead to his downfall and reveal his secret.

Will Millie and Ian look
beneath the surface and see there’s more to each other than meets the eye?

EXCERPT

“Are
you okay?” a gruff male voice asked, his breath warm in her ear.

She
nodded, unsure if she could do any more than that.

“I’m
going to set you back on your feet. Do you think you can stand?”

Nodding
again, she realized the hard object at her back was a man’s chest, and the
steel bands were his arms. She slid down his body and felt the sidewalk beneath
her feet. A wave of dizziness washed over her.

“Breathe,”
her rescuer encouraged. He turned her to face him, his hands on her shoulders,
and she gazed up and into eyes the color of a winter-gray sky, earnest with
concern. His already tousled brown hair ruffled in the wind whipping around the
corner, and his chin bore the stubble so many women were fond of.

She
inhaled deeply, drawing in the scent of something spicy and leathery. “Better?”

She
nodded, still speechless.

“You
should always wait after the signal changes before you cross a street. I’ve got
an appointment. You’re sure you’re okay?”

She
nodded.

“Be
more careful next time,” the stranger in the leather jacket said before he
turned to walk away.

Millie
managed to put one foot in front of the other for another block before coming
to a bus stop and collapsing onto the bench. Her legs shook, her hands
quivered, and she struggled to take in a deep breath. All she could think about
was how your life was supposed to flash before your eyes when confronted with a
near-death experience, and hers . . . didn’t. Instead it was like a film
projector that had run out of film – just a blank screen.

What
did that mean?

It
meant, Millicent Grace Stephens, that your life has been so boring that the
highlight reel was nonexistent. Her thirtieth birthday was right around the
corner, and what had she accomplished with her life?

Not
much, that’s what.

Sure,
she had a bachelor’s in literature, summa cum laude, with a focus on the Middle
Ages from Sarah Lawrence College. She had a job she loved. And she could
support herself. Other than that, she might as well have become a nun for all
the excitement her life held.

She
recalled the hard strength of her rescuer’s chest against her back. The rough
and tumble look of him. She’d bet her first edition autographed copy of Edith
Wharton’s Age of Innocence, that his life wasn’t boring. That if he had a
near-death experience he’d have a highlight reel worthy of an action movie.

Rising
on still-wobbly legs, she drew in a long, slow breath, and resumed her errand
in an I-almost-died daze.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Rebecca Heflin is an award-winning author who has dreamed of writing
romantic fiction since she was fifteen and her older sister snuck a copy of
Kathleen Woodiwiss' Shanna to her and told her to read it. Rebecca writes
women's fiction and contemporary romance. When not passionately pursuing her
dream, Rebecca is busy with her day-job as a practicing attorney.

Rebecca is a member of
Romance Writers of America (RWA), Florida Romance Writers, RWA Contemporary
Romance, and Florida Writers Association. She and her mountain-climbing husband
live at sea level in sunny Florida.

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